GOP rep blasts Navy for including book that argues America is fundamentally racist on reading list

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Navy Reading List Includes Anti-Racism Book for Sailors
Washington Free Beacon, Feb 25, 2021, Jack Beyrer

Four of the 16 books listed under a section dedicated to personal and leadership development discuss topics such as anti-racism, the criminal justice system, and gender politics. Their titles include Ibram X. Kendi's bestselling How to Be an Antiracist, The New Jim Crow, Sexual Minorities and Politics, and Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward. Kendi's book in particular has garnered significant controversy, with many of its ideas spreading from college campuses to public health institutions and public sector unions.

Brent Sadler, a former Navy officer and senior fellow for naval warfare at the Heritage Foundation, said the inclusion of such work would not help America’s sailors and, in some cases, could harm the branch’s culture and development.

"These reading lists should be making our sailors and officers better sailors and officers on ships at sea, ready to be effective in combat but also in great power competition," Sadler said. "As I look through this, it’s hard for me to get my head wrapped around that you come out the other end of it a more informed sailor, likely to be a better leader on a Navy ship." He added that the reading list "suffers a real intellectual dishonesty."

Sadler also noted that no books on the reading list include a study of the U.S. Constitution, an oversight that he considered deeply harmful to the education of naval personnel. This month, the Navy’s "Task Force 1" concluded its study of diversity by stating the primary goal of the armed service is to protect and defend the Constitution. For Sadler, a list that does not include lessons about the Constitution makes that goal more difficult to achieve.


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GOP rep blasts Navy for including book that argues America is fundamentally racist on reading list

'Kendi’s ideas are divisive and will undermine morale and weaken our national security,' Banks wrote
By Audrey Conklin | Fox News
 
EXCLUSIVE - Republican Indiana Rep. Jim Banks on Wednesday sent a letter to Adm. Michael M. Gilday after the Navy included Boston University Professor Ibram X. Kendi's "How to Be an Antiracist" on its 2021 reading list.

The No. 1 New York Times bestseller, which has been adopted by some schools and educators, gives advice on how people can be explicitly "antiracist," as opposed to not racist, and "promises to become an essential book for anyone who wants to go beyond an awareness of racism to the next step of contributing to the formation of a truly just and equitable society," according to the author's website.

Banks, a Naval Reserve officer since 2012 and ranking member of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel, argues in his letter that the views promoted in the book on the 2021 Chief of Naval Operations Professional Reading Program are "explicitly anti-American" and called on Gilday to explain the Navy's decision to include it on the CNO-PRP list or remove it.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jim-banks-navy-antiracist-book-letter

[Fishrrman]

Book title:
"How to Be an Antiracist, The New Jim Crow, Sexual Minorities and Politics, and Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward."

Leans jes' a little communist, maybe...?